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Affect, Emotion, and Children's Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults

Affect, Emotion, and Children's Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults

Moruzi, Kristine
Smith, Michelle
Bullen, Elizabeth

Hardcover

Series: Children's Literature and Culture

Literary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1138244678
ISBN13: 9781138244672
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 1 2017
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This volume explores the relationship between representation, affect, and emotion in texts for children and young adults. It demonstrates how texts for young people function as tools for emotional socialisation, enculturation, and political persuasion. The collection provides an introduction to this emerging field and engages with the representation of emotions, ranging from shame, grief, and anguish to compassion and happiness, as psychological and embodied states and cultural constructs with ideological significance. It also explores the role of narrative empathy in relation to emotional socialisation and to the ethics of representation in relation to politics, social justice, and identity categories including gender, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality. Addressing a range of genres, including advice literature, novels, picture books, and film, this collection examines contemporary, historical, and canonical children's and young adult literature to highlight the variety of approaches to emotion and affect in these texts and to consider the ways in which these approaches offer new perspectives on these texts. The individual chapters apply a variety of theoretical approaches and perspectives, including cognitive poetics, narratology, and poststructuralism, to the analysis of affect and emotion in children's and young adult literature.

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